tonight’s episode just ended, and local vegan baker chloe coscarelli took the victory home BIG TIME. not only did the young chef compete against professional cupcake shop owners who have been in the business FOR YEARS, but she won EVERY round with her 100% VEGAN cupcakes!

round #1: the aphrodisiac cupcake

here’s a re-cap!…

round #1: chloe was the clear winner although she made the only vegan cupcakes. she made a ginger nutmeg spice cake w/ a vanilla bean buttercream frosting, date drizzle and sweet almond topping. the judges were doubtful at first, but her treats won them over. they described her cupcakes as “perfect,” and raved about them non-stop.

round #2: the three cupcake challenge.

in round #2, the contestants were challenged to make 3 cupcake flavors in a short amount of time. again, chloe went head to head with animal ingredients and came out on top. her flavors were: chocolate strawberry shortcake, raspberry tiramisu, and dark chocolate orange. the final judge described chloe’s presentation as “flawless and beautiful,” and said she did a “fabulous” job. she received the highest marks.

round #3 is where things started to heat up! there were two contestants left, and each was challenged to create a massive dessert display for a hollywood singles event. they were tasked with making 1,000 cupcakes in just 2 hours, complete with an epic centerpiece that would be the life of the party.

chloe dreamed up an elaborate structure that involved fake flames and shelves of cupcakes in individual martini glasses. she changed her mind about the design during the round, and for a moment it was pretty intense, and looked like she may not finish in time.

This is freaking awesome and confirms what my family and friends already knew about vegan baking: a well-done vegan cake beats the pants off of dairy and eggs ones!!! Congrats Chloe, you’re beautiful and talented and have done a great service for the cause of veganism by rocking those judges’ worlds on national TV.

This is really a milestone in veganism. Food Network has been so reluctant to do anything vegetarian, let alone vegan, but hopefully this will show them that the market is ready for it! Congratulations Chef Chloe!

Wouldn’t it be great to have a vegan cooking show on the Food Network? If anyone could do it, it would be Chloe! Maybe we should petition the Food Network…? Let’s strike while the iron (and Chloe) is hot!!!

This is awesome! Job well done, Chloe! Your natural talent and creativity and of course your amazing culinary skills and overall sweetness, represented vegan desserts, and essentially vegans in general, in a positive light on the Food Network. That is a huge feat and you did it by just being you. Amazing. I know the Food Network will have you back for sure and I hope you will continue to represent vegan cooking and/or baking on the Food Network. Oh and thank you for sharing the orange chocolate cupcake recipe with us through Veg News. Could you be anymore sweeter?

I’m not a vegetarian or a vegan but I was rooting for Chloe all the way!!! CONGRATS TO HER!!! It’s great to see someone who brings diversity to the Food Network win a competition. And not only that, her cupcakes looked divine!!

Terrible. Chloe didn’t even finish her display. the award should have been given to the carpenter for making that display. she only got about maybe a hundred or two on the display…cupcake wars is a dumb show where mediocre wannabes(“chef chloe”?) try to make something out of a minimal number of ingredients. watch chopped. thats a real amateur cooking competition.

Real Deal, what loser are you talking about. That woman won fair and square. Yes, her cupcakes are good but Kara shouldn’t have been in the competition with others who are trying to get established. At any rate, the competitor’s butterfly display was better and more in tune with what the organization was looking for and she had some good cupcakes. She is not a loser.

@Realdeal, just goes to show that you have never had a proper vegan cupcake. I bake regularly and non of my cupcakes ever come out dry at all. They are moist and soft and very tasty. I’ve made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate/jasmine butter cream for my non-veggie friends. They swore they were the best cupcakes they had ever eaten and were flabbergasted to find out they were 100% vegan (not revealed until they had already eaten them).

Hmmm…sounds to me like jealousy? It’s too bad Realdeal that you feel the need to pick on this young chef. What? Did you enter and not get picked for the show or something. This win goes to Chef Chloe and the Vegan community hands down. Try harder next time.

Congrats Chloe, and I agree with ‘Flurrybot’it would indeed be nice to have a vegan cooking show ….yes! And to the Brittany’s of thought, “If you can’t say anything nice, keep your trap shut” we need more inspiration, not your degradation!

It was pretty obvious to me that this episode was fixed. The way the judges kissed Chloe’s ass the entire time. Even when the judges couldn’t even cut into one of her cupcakes they only showed one minor critique.
She didn’t even finish her display.
Is she related to any of the judges or producers of the show?

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